| I decided that it would be a good idea for me to | | | | accumulate in your body over time; they can at |
| install a drinking water purification system in my | | | | some point negatively affect your health. |
| home. The reason that I did so was not simply | | | | The water treatment facilities cannot remove the |
| because my water tasted bad, although that is what | | | | traces of toxic metals, but a drinking water |
| got me to do some research into what might be | | | | purification system that supplies you with an ion |
| causing my water to taste funny. I installed one of | | | | exchange filter can. What an ion exchange does is |
| these devices because of what I learned about the | | | | trap the incoming heavy metals, and then releases |
| state of our drinking water system and municipal | | | | healthy electrolytes like sodium and potassium into |
| water treatment facilities. | | | | your water. The ion exchange will also keep your pH |
| Don't think for one minute that the water coming out | | | | levels perfectly balanced. |
| of your tap is safe for you to drink, even if the | | | | Without a doubt the most pressing reason for you |
| annual reports from your local water treatment | | | | to want your water purified is the tremendous |
| facility say it is. The treatment facilities are able to | | | | number of chemicals and pharmaceuticals in the |
| significantly reduce the risk of waterborne diseases | | | | water. Chemicals enter the groundwater system |
| by eliminating the majority of the bacteria and | | | | through farm runoff, toxic waste disposal, leaking |
| parasites in the water, but there is little else that | | | | chemical storage tanks, and hospitals flushing expired |
| they can do for you. | | | | medication down the toilet. There are tens of |
| The fact is that though the chlorine disinfection | | | | thousands of different chemicals in all, and several |
| procedure is pretty efficient, there are still cysts, | | | | thousand are carcinogenic. |
| chlorine resistant parasites, present when the water | | | | A quality drinking water purification system will be |
| reaches you. One of the things that a quality drinking | | | | armed with what is known as an activated granular |
| water purification system will provide you with is sub | | | | carbon filter, which removes a wide variety of |
| micron filtration, capable of removing up to 99.99 | | | | chemical substances. Chlorine, trihalomethanes, volatile |
| percent of the harmful microbes present in your | | | | organic compounds, lindane, alachlor, altrazine, |
| water. You definitely need this kind of protection. | | | | benzene, trichloroethylene, and methyl tertiary butyl |
| Besides parasites, you have to be aware that there | | | | ether are all reduced significantly by activated |
| are traces of heavy metals in the groundwater | | | | granular carbon. This filter really could save your life. |
| system such as lead, copper, thallium, mercury, | | | | Purchasing and installing a quality drinking water |
| barium, antimony, and cadmium. These metallic | | | | purification that features sub micron filtration, ion |
| elements are highly toxic, and you should not be of | | | | exchange, and activated granular carbon is one of |
| the mind that because they are present only in | | | | the best things you will ever do. You need to do it |
| traces that they cannot harm you. These metals | | | | now; your health and your family's are in the balance. |